Lio by Mark Tatulli for December 18, 2016

“Hoom, hm, get this rope off me.”

I’d be surprised that being the evergreen cousin of the “Peanuts” kite-eating tree.

So Christmas is about who makes it out alive now.

It’s the Christmas Ent.

A little sprucing up will do pine fir now.

It’s Mr and Mrs Fir’s daughter, Connie.

Does it eat squirrels?

Live, yes. Docile and benevolent, no.

Just returned from a southern vacation: Tan ’n balmy

And the best thing is, when you get it home, it can decorate itself.

These puns are beginning to needle me.

Does it water itself and clean up needles after they drop?

Everyone needs a Firry pet.

Always wondered where SNL got their killer Xmas trees during that first season. Now I know.

O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum.

Treebeard seems to have fallen on hard times…

I want one of those!

I’m absolutely all for Truth in Advertising!

Now that’s a tree I would to love have… doubles as great home protection! (At least I hope so!)

Those would make for excellent sentinels.

Bet it gives new meaning to “shed.” Think it might cough up a fir ball?

Am I the only one who read “Children of Green Knowe” when I was a child? Killer trees were around long before SNL.